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The Sin Ship is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by the actor Louis Wolheim in his only directorial effort.
The Sin Ship: Directed by Louis Wolheim. With Louis Wolheim, Mary Astor, Ian Keith, Hugh Herbert. A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
Salty old captain Sam McVey (Louis Wolheim) takes on a pair of passengers -- a preacher and his innocent wife -- who would like to travel down the Pacific coast.
Brief Synopsis. A ship's captain fights to protect a female passenger from his crew.
An unscrupulous, indolent ship captain (Louis Wolheim) is inspired to try and reform, after falling in love with the wife (Mary Astor) of a passenger (Ian Keith).
The Sin Ship: All A-Bored. “Listen, Charlie, why don’t you take my advice and be more like me? I don’t say no prayers, I don’t hit no cripples, and I don’t fall in love!” Louis Wolheim is one of the great ‘what ifs’ of early Hollywood history.
The Sin Ship is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by the actor Louis Wolheim in his only directorial effort.
